My face.Tan, Jon (b. 1973) British-Chinese designer and typographer.

Chief Designer at Matter work­ing on the neuro­science of happiness. I lead teams making durable, inclusive, and aesth­etic design for screens, hands, and paper. I’ve helped orga­nisa­tions of all sizes, from start-ups to behemoths like the BBC and Natio­nal Geo­graphic.

My work and prose has featured in publications such as I Love Typography, Typo­graphica, TYPE maga­zine, 8 Faces, .Net magazine, 24 Ways, and in books such as Hard­boiled Web Design (Five Simple Steps), Fluid Web Typography (New Riders), The Principles Of Beautiful Web Design (Site­Point), The Manual, and the first Smashing Book.

I’ve also been fortunate to be invited to give dozens of talks to share my practice at con­ferences such as South by South West, OSCON, An Event Apart, Beyond Tellerand, and Ampersand.

In 2005, I was the first designer to be accept­ed into the Inter­national Society of Typo­graphic Designers based on work for the screen alone. In 2009, I founded Fontdeck, the vanguard web fonts service that brought some of the world’s best typefaces to the web for the very first time. In 2010, I started Mild Bunch, the oldest indie co-working space in Bristol, where I still work today.

For­merly, I was a partner at Analog and Fic­tive Kin, Crea­tive Director at OmniTI, and founder of Grow Collective. To find out more please see the interviews and profile on my old site.

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